You can do this with the development phones -- ADP1 and ADP2 and Nexus One.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:34 AM, potassium <[email protected]>wrote: > We're creating some software that is going to require a few tweaks to > the Linux kernel and thus to run it on hardware we'll have to create a > custom system image. > > In order for this to be useful as a commercial product it'll therefore > almost certainly have to be necessary to work in conjunction with a > network-operator or/and phone/netbook manufacturer. > However that's not important for the moment, the first step is to > create a demo/proof of concept of the software running on actual > hardware. > > The hardware for demo purposes should be an actual phone ideally, not > a piece of obscure reference hardware for example, however is it > actually possible to create a custom system image for a phone? My > opinion is that its not - going to be possible because the image will > need to contain drivers specific to the hardware (screen drivers, > modem drivers, etc.) and these aren't going to be available for > inclusion in the image. > > Is there any way we can create a custom system image for a currently > (or shortly to be released) phone and successfully re-flash the > hardware and it'll run? > > TIA > > -- > unsubscribe: > [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
